IN RECENT days, Bangladesh has seen student protests in many parts of the country, especially on university campuses. The protesting students have valid reasons to protest about a quota system that they find highly unfair and discriminatory. A whopping 30 per cent of the well-paid and massively oversubscribed Bangladesh Civil Service posts...
WITH a population of nearly 170 million in an area of 147,570 square kilometres, Bangladesh is the eighth most populated country in the world. It is still one of the least developed countries, poised to graduate to a developing country by 2026 and a developed country by 2041...
With five days still to go in the first monsoon month鈥擩une鈥攖he north-eastern district of Sylhet already recorded an amount of rainfall that was never seen in the month since Bangladesh鈥檚 independence in 1971...
Chief Justice Obaidul Hassan on Monday said that no other countries in the history of the world had witnessed such genocide in such a short span of time as Bangladesh saw in 1971...
President Mohammed Shahabuddin on Saturday urged the government as well as the civil society to play an effective role to ensure that...
THE Bangladesh state in 1971 is complex in its functional identity as it was a state in occupation fighting for liberation. The state formation process followed unorthodox routes, incorporating both formal and informal realities in separate and...
